O'Reilly Essay: Software's Future May Be Conversational, Not Autonomous
rseroter · x · 2026-10-06
An O'Reilly essay by Robert Englander challenges the industry's default assumption that AI must end in full autonomy, arguing the more transformative path is natural-language interfaces layered on top of deterministic software systems. It acknowledges AI's real productivity gains in coding and drafting but argues deterministic systems plus conversational UX may beat model-as-actor designs on reliability.
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